Re: shuttle breaks up on re-entry

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 10:49:00 MST


On Saturday, February 01, 2003 12:06 PM Kai Becker kmb@kai-m-becker.de
wrote:
> Very sad news. German TV shows specials
> about it since 16.30 MET. The Columbia was
> 22 years old. Has anything been modernized
> since '81?

All the shuttles, IIRC, have been upgrade several times. Just
recently -- was it 2000? -- Columbia was overhauled. Last year, too,
cracks were found in fuel lines. I forget what was done with these.

In memory of all pioneers who lost their lives pushing back the
darkness,

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
    See "Splitting Hares" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/SplittingHares.html



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